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Mullah Omar is dead

Confirms Afghanistan

AFP, Kabul
Taliban supremo Mullah Omar died two years ago in Pakistan, Afghanistan said yesterday, after unnamed government and militant sources reported the demise of the reclusive warrior-cleric.
The insurgents have not officially confirmed the death of the supreme leader of the Taliban, who has not been
seen publicly since the 2001 US-led invasion of Afghanistan that toppled the Taliban government in Kabul.
Rumours of Omar's ill-health and even death have
regularly surfaced in the past, but the latest claims - just two days before fresh peace talks with the insurgents - mark the first such confirmation from the Afghan government.
"The government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, based on credible information, confirms that Mullah Mohammad Omar, leader of the Taliban died in April 2013 in Pakistan," a statement from the presidential palace said.
Haseeb Sediqi, the spokesman for the National Directorate of Security, told AFP that Omar died in a Karachi hospital "under mysterious circumstances".
Omar's death would mark a significant blow to an almost 14-year insurgency, which is riven by internal divisions and threatened by the rise of the Islamic State group in South Asia.
The official announcement comes after unnamed government and militant sources told media, including AFP, that the one-eyed leader died
two or three years ago, and after the Afghan government said it was investigating reports of the death.
“We can confirm that Mullah Omar died two years ago... in Pakistan due to an illness," a senior official in Afghanistan's national unity government told AFP earlier.
"He was buried in Zabul province (in southern Afghanistan)," said the official, citing Afghan intelligence sources.
Omar's death could trigger a power struggle within the Taliban, observers say, with insurgent sources claiming that Mullah Mansour, the current deputy, and Omar's son Mohammad Yakoub are both top contenders to replace him.
The insurgents in April published a descriptive biography of the "charismatic" supreme leader in a surprise move apparently aimed at countering the creeping influence of the Islamic State group within their ranks.